Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. 1 A united group of persons who study at an educational institution. 2 (context American football slang English) A football play in which most of the players run to one side of the field.
Wikipedia
Student Body is a science fiction short story by F. L. Wallace. It was first published in Galaxy magazine in 1953 and has been anthologised many times. It was included in The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology).
Usage examples of "student body".
By the early 1980s, most of the thirty-thousand-plus Berkeley student body had no interest in carrying on the scruffy activist traditions of the 1960s.
However, had events demonstrated the rightness of Audrey's position, we would still be toiling in the English department at Clayton College, a dreary four-year diploma mill with a lovely campus, a mummified faculty, and a student body derived almost entirely from the Church of Christ contingent in certain small towns in Pennsylvania.
In high school I'm gonna write ten dozen stories, act Hamlet, be student body president, graduate all As.
We were all sure he would be the first person our age to be elected governor, an impression reinforced four years later when he was elected student body president at the University of Arkansas, and again just a year after that when, at twenty-two, he became the youngest member of the state legislature.
I admit that my appearance is singular when compared to that of the majority of your student body, but I assure you that I am in no way remarkable among those of my own kind.
Mac Glover had been president of the University of Arkansas student body.
Dick King was president of the student body at Arkansas State Teachers College.
I mean, she PRETENDED not to caretelling everyone after she lost, that being student body president is stupid anyway, and that she didnt know what she was thinking, ever running for the post in the first place.
So starved and choked did science become, that once more colleges found themselves forced to reinstate philosophy and the classics as the chief studiesand at that the student body fell to the lowest point since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Suspicion fell upon the magi first and upon the student body second.